"The people selling the weapons are, in many cases, the same people selling the news"

this is the same preposterous crap that i hear all the time. that the people at the news are selling us propaganda. okay, so the news here is hysterical and bombastic in its slant. it stirs up fear and fear puts asses in seats. but to say that NBC is a puppet of the arms industry is ridiculous. i know people who work for NBC. I know people in prominent positions at CNN(if you lived in Atlanta at one point, you will know someone at CNN) and these people went into the business to be journalists. they are just like you and me. they have hopes and dreams and a concious and there are tons of them employed. there are mistakes, oversights, bad journalism and flat out yellow journalism that occurs, but your proposal ios a conspiracy theory- no more. to think that thousands of people will lay down there love of what they do in this free country to lie for the weapons industry ..and on top of it all, for not that much money either! working in a news agency gives you a wealth of sources from all corners of the world and you put forth the fantastic idea that they are slanting the information they get to boost profits in weapons production. it is without validity.

"the only single force thats responsible for that many deaths in Iraq are international sanctions."

another conspiracy theory spun by the antiwar(stalinist worker party based A.N.S.W.E.R.) contingent. Saddams regime had sanction placed upon it that were again APROVED BY THE ENTIRE UN. these were food for oil programs that sent medical supplies and food to Iraq for their oil. But we are all supposed to believe that food and medical supplies in mass quantities have killed thousands of children. It is a lie. Let me tell you why there is so much death of the innocent in Iraq: Saddam Hussein was reselling the food and medical supplie to Syria and the sick death cult called Palestine while his own people starved. Remember when the weapons inspectors first went into Iraqin November? They searched one of Saddam's fifty palaces and were flabbergasted by the wealth and opulence on display. It was all over the news(google search should find it). The reason for the reaction was because that palace didn't exist when they were last there. He built it during the nineties with money he was making off of reselling the food and medicine meant for his people. Sanctions did not kill children in Iraq, Saddam Hussein did. Keeping his people in line with mild starvation is a lesson he learned from his idol Joseph Stalin.
 
 "You need to get it through your skull that war is actually not a good default course of action."

There are just so many damn examples of that NOT being the case that we could go on forever. I mean, if war is not a good course of action, perhaps we should have never been in Korea? After all, look at the terrible difference we made - free and prosperous life in the south with a thriving economy and excellent quality of life while in the North, all the money the state has is put towards weapons and military while its people literally dig ditches for food.

i'm sticking by the simple fact that all free countries had to fight for their freedom. i wasn't happy that we had to go into Iraq. I think the whole thing could have been avoided if France Germany and Russia had signed on instead of putting their own profits first. it would have been the entire world against Saddam and it is arguable that he would have stepped aside. if anything, they are accountable for this mess as well.